Improved clothes-washer



-- cited Startet JAMES K. DUGDALE, or WHITE WATER, AINDIANA.

Leners Panama 98,855, @ma January 1s, 1876.

IMPROYED CLOTHES-WASHER The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and m'aking part of the same.

Be it known that I, J AMES K. DUGDALE, of White Water, in the county of Wayne, and State of Indiana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Clothes-Washers, a-nd I do hereby declare that the i following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation lof the same, reference being had to the annexed'drawings, making a part of this specification- Fignre 1 being a perspective view.

G is the frame.

M, a stationary cross-piece.

A, the handle.

N O, the rubber, which is in two parts. The lower part, N, is fastened to the lower end of sidepieees of frame Gr; the upper part of rubber slides in grooves in said frame. The l'ubber projects from the frame, forming arounded surface, which surface may be tinted Q is a cavity in one or both of the parts ofthe rubbers, making av jaw, S S, ou eachside thereof, which cavity admits of its shutting together more tightly over' buttons, hooks, 85e., without endangering them.

Figure 2 is a sectional view 'of said rubber, N is the under, and O, the upper part; Q, the cavity; S S, the jaws-which hold the clothes.

E, fig. 1, a sliding rod, passing through cross-piece M, thelower end of which is fastened in sliding rubber A O. A knob, R, is attached to the upper end. There are notches in said rod at j, in which bolt g catches.

The bolt is pressed against the rod B by spi-:ing t', or4

the bolt may be stationary' and the. notches turned under it, by turning therod, as shown in Figure 3.

E is the sliding rod j, notches, which catch under bolt'or plate g h h, plates fastening rod 1E in position to sliding rubber O and cross-piece M.

The clothes are put in the opening'made by raising Athe sliding rubber O, which, being pushed down, they are fastened in. l

In operating it, the rubber N may beat the clothes against the bottom of a wash-tub in which a washlboard is fastened. The clothes may be drawn up and V down on said wash-board.

An extra pressure .is obtained by applying one hand tothe cross-piece M.

W hat .l claim 'as my invention andimprovement, is- The holiow rubber N O, when attached to clotheswashers, as described andset forth.

Also, the hollow rubber, in combination with sliding rod E, notches f, and bolt g4 JAMES K. DUGDALE. Witnesses:

, BEXJ. W. ADDLEMAN, BENJAMIN DUGDALE. 

